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When I Was A Young Girl

by Inga Liljeström

on We Have Tigers (2017)

When I was a young girl I used to seek pleasure
When I was a young girl I used to drink ale
Right out of the ale house and into the jail house
Right out of the bar room and into the jail

Come mama come papa and sit you beside me
Come mama come papa and pity my case
My poor head is aching my sad heart in breaking
My body's salvaged and hell is my doom

Go send for the preacher to come and pray for me
Go send for the doctor to heal all my wounds
My poor head is aching my sad heart in breaking
My body's salvaged and I'm bound to die

I want three young ladies to bear up my coffin
I want three young ladies to carry me home
And each of them holding a bunch of white roses
To place on my body as I pass along

One morning one morning one morning in may
I spied this young lady all wrapped in white linen
All wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay